Assessment Summary 

Assessment Process and Purpose of Assessment

To assess whether the students possess the prior knowledge needed to successfully
Prior Knowledge
accomplish this unit, the students will be given a multiple choice quiz using Survey
Quiz – Physics
Monkey. The teacher will use the results of this quiz to determine what areas need
concepts and terms
greater or less emphasis during the lecture.
This quiz will contain the questions in the previous quiz in addition new items
introduced in the lecture. This will determine how successful the lecture was in
Post-Lecture Quiz – imparting the needed information to the students. If there are significant holes in the
Physics & math student’s knowledge, a think-pair-share will be implemented in addition to students
concepts and terms sharing questions which are not resolved by the think-pair-share. The quiz will be
given again to assess if this process was successful. If not, more time will be needed
to scaffold the student’s understanding of the material.
Lecture Guided By looking over each student’s Guided Notes, the teacher will be able to assess if the
Notes on Newton’s students are ready to proceed to the lab portion of this unit. Have they created several
Second Law Model plausible models? Were they able to answer all of the questions in the guided notes? If
Creation & any of the questions gave students difficulty, then more scaffolding is likely necessary
Scientific Method before proceeding to the lab section of this unit.
By looking over the students Lab Notes and videos, the teacher will be able to assess
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if the students are ready to create their table and plot of the Newton’s Second Law
Law Lab Notes and
models and data. If the students are having difficulty completing the lab, the teacher
Data Collection
may need to provide more time and scaffolding, but the teacher needs to assess any
Videos
deficiency in their instruction which may have led to these difficulties.
This is a key assessment as it will show if the students have enough understanding of
the material to produce the tables and plot of their models and the collected data.
Table & Plot of
Analysis of potential errors in the generation of their model & data plots is a key
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aspect to higher level thinking. It is important that the students not become too
Law Models and
frustrated if their results did not come out exactly as expected and the ability to figure
Data
out the potential sources of any problems is a key aspect to critical thinking and
science.
This may be the most important summative assessment of the unit. Are the students
Mind Map of
able to synthesize all they have accomplished and create a coherent mind map
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summarizing what they have accomplished? They need to frame the results of their
Law and the
discoveries about Newton’s Second Law of motion using the model of the scientific
Scientific Method
method.
Now the students need to communicate (a key 21st century skill) their results using
Essay/Lab Report on their mind map as a structure in the form of an essay/lab report. The focus of this
Newton’s Second assessment is not how to write a formal lab report, but to communicate how the
Law and the scientific methods allowed them to gain a deep understanding of Newton’s Second
Scientific Method Law of motion. The students will be given guidance of how they should structure their
essay/lab report and a rubric will be provided for additional guidance.